Shakespeare's London: A Commentary on Shakespeare's Life and Work in London. A New Edition with a Chapter on Westminster and an Itinerary of Sites and ReliquesJ.M. Dent & Company, 1904 - 331 Seiten |
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Shakespeare's London; A Commentary on Shakespeare's Life and Work in London ... Thomas Fairman 1855-1924 Ordish Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2016 |
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abbey alley allusions ancient audience Bankside Baynard's Castle Bear Garden Ben Jonson Blackfriars Bridge buildings built Burbage called Chamber character church of St comedies contemporary court described Downgate dramatic Duke Earl Eastcheap Elizabethan English Essex Falcon Falstaff famous fields flowers Friars fustian country gate Gerard Globe Theatre Gloucester Gray's Gray's Inn Hall Henry Henslowe Holborn Holywell Humour John Stow Jonson King King's Lincoln's Inn living lodged London gardens Lord masquerade memorial Mermaid neighbourhood palace Paris Garden parish Philip Henslowe players playhouse poet precinct present probably Queen realised reign residence Revels Richard Richard III river road Rose royal says Stow scene Shake Shakespeare Shakespeare's London Shakespeare's plays SHEWING Shoreditch side Southampton Southwark speare speare's St George's Fields St Helen's St Paul's stage stone suggested Swan Theatre Tavern Temple Thames Street tion Tower Twelfth Night walk wall Westminster Wharf Whitehall wood Yard
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Seite 98 - And, because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes like the warbling of music) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air.
Seite 243 - Not marble nor the gilded monuments Of princes shall outlive this powerful rhyme; But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone besmear'd with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn. And broils root out the work of masonry. Nor Mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory.
Seite 290 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whom they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life...
Seite 288 - To draw no envy (Shakespeare) on thy name, Am I thus ample to thy book and fame : While I confess thy writings to be such As neither man nor muse can praise too much.
Seite 305 - Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room: Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read and praise to give.
Seite 99 - ... which grows upon the cluster in the first coming forth; then sweet-briar, then wall-flowers, which are very delightful to be set under a parlour or lower chamber window; then pinks and gilliflowers...
Seite 144 - O ! it is excellent To have a giant's strength ; but tyrannous To use it like a giant.
Seite 289 - Muses' anvil, turn the same (And himself with it) that he thinks to frame, Or for the laurel he may gain a scorn, For a good poet's made as well as born; And such wert thou.
Seite 17 - ... of ten thousand spectators at least (at several times), who in the tragedian that represents his person imagine they behold him fresh bleeding.
Seite 200 - There are a sort of men, whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond ; And do a wilful stillness entertain, With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit , As who should say, / am sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips let no dog bark!